Extraordinary conservation of cysteines among homologous Chironomus silk proteins sp185 and sp220

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 452-462

  Case, Steven T ^a   Cox, Carol ^a   Bell, Walter C ^a   Hoffman, Rosemary T ^a   Martin, Jon ^b   Hamilton, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Balbiani ring genes; Cysteine rich modular proteins; Glycosylation; Nonsynonymous substitutions; Silk proteins; Synonymous substitutions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BALBIANI RING; CHIRONOMIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAMPTOCHIRONOMUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS PALLIDIVITTATUS; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI;

EID: 0030942902     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006165     Document Type: Article

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